Peter and I harvested our first bit of honey yesterday! Man-oh-man was it messy! AND SO DELICIOUS!

I couldn’t stop taking pictures at first, and then I had too ’cause things were getting far too messy.

We didn’t have a centrifugal honey extractor, so we just squeezed the honey out of the comb. Our hands were sticky and by the end I definitely had a sugar high. So, we scraped and squeezed and strained the honey through a sieve and ended up with two mason jars of honey and one of wax.

When I got up this morning, a lot of the honey had settled out of the wax, which is good since I was wondering how to get that to happen.